Etymologies

Examples

In December of 1963, realist painter Adolf Konrad planned to travel to Rome and Egypt, so he made a packing list -- not quite the kind of list you or I might make -- Kondrad's was a water-color painted into his sketchbook.

Building towers of plastic cups so Bartlette could destroy them; being an appreciative art critic for Carmen's Q-tip water-color people-scapes (where the people dwarfed their environment); and applauding the winners of Ferguson's Hot Wheels car races.

Still in shirt sleeves on the beach, I tried to capture the scene: with my fledgling photo skills I wasn't all that successful...but the caress of the warm air and the water-color sky remain etched on my memory.